| France Causes Dates | Year | Date | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| The American Civil War | ------ | 1775 - 1783 | 83%
|
| The Diamond NecklaceAffair | ------ | 1784 - 1785 | 83%
|
| Necker presents theCompte Rendu | 1781 | February 19th | 83%
|
| Civil constitution of the clergy is decreed | 1790 | July 12th | 83%
|
| The invasion of Les Invalidesand the Bastille | 1789 | July 14th | 83%
|
| Lafayette organises the festival of federation | 1790 | July 14th | 83%
|
| The King accepts the revolution, Bailly becomes mayor and Lafayette becomes head of the National Guard | 1789 | July 15th | 83%
|
| The troops are withdrawn and Necker isrecalled | 1789 | July 16th | 83%
|
| The Coronation ofLouis XVI | 1775 | June 11th | 83%
|
| Necker Resigns | 1781 | May 19th | 83%
|
| The Revellion Riots | 1789 | April 27th and 28th | 67%
|
| Calonne is dismissed andreplaced by Brienne | 1787 | April 8th | 67%
|
| The Parliaments rebel againstThe King and are exiled | 1787 | August | 67%
|
| The invasions of the Tuileries | 1792 | August 10th | 67%
|
| The royal treasury suspends payments | 1788 | August 16th | 67%
|
| Brienne resigns and Necker is recalled | 1788 | August 24th | 67%
|
| Declaration of the rights of man and citizen | 1789 | August 26th | 67%
|
| Feudalism is abolished in the August Decrees | 1789 | August 4th - 11th | 67%
|
| The King calls the Estates Generalfor May of 1789 | 1788 | August 8th | 67%
|
| The King convenes theAssembly of Notables | 1787 | February 22nd | 67%
|
| The E.G elections and drafting ofthe cahiers take place | 1789 | February - May | 67%
|
| The king is executed | 1793 | January 21st | 67%
|
| The King sacks Necker, people get rowdyand Desmoulins encourages taking up arms | 1789 | July 11th - 13th | 67%
|
| Foulon and Berthier are killed by the crowd | 1789 | July 22nd | 67%
|
| Protests occur against the troops butthe King does not withdraw them | 1789 | July 2nd - 10th | 67%
|
| Some Parish Priests join the 3rd Estate | 1789 | June 13th | 67%
|
| The 3rd estate declares itself the Assembly | 1789 | June 17th | 67%
|
| Honorific titles and nobility are abandoned | 1790 | June 19th | 67%
|
| The tennis court oath | 1789 | June 20th | 67%
|
| The flight to Varennes, and the King's return | 1791 | June 20th and 21st | 67%
|
| A group of Nobles join with the 3rd | 1789 | June 25th | 67%
|
| The three orders unite | 1789 | June 27th | 67%
|
| The King calls in the troops | 1789 | June 30th | 67%
|
| The Great Fear | 1789 | Late July | 67%
|
| The E.G opens | 1789 | May 5th | 67%
|
| The 3rd estate demand voting by head | 1789 | May 6th | 67%
|
| The King holds a royal session | 1787 | November 19th | 67%
|
| The October Days | 1789 | October 5th - 6th | 67%
|
| The Assembly grants king suspensive vetoand decides on unicameral system | 1789 | September | 67%
|
| What is the 3rd estate is published | 1789 | February | 50%
|
| Abolition of religious orders with exceptionof education and healthcare | 1790 | February 13th | 50%
|
| France is turned into 83 departments | 1790 | February 26th | 50%
|
| Champ de Mars massacre | 1791 | July 17th | 50%
|
| The Brunswick manifesto is issued | 1792 | July 25th | 50%
|
| The Parliaments says that the king must submit fiscal reform to the Estates General | 1788 | May 3rd | 50%
|
| Nationalisation of Church property | 1789 | November 27th | 50%
|
| The legislative assembly meets for the first time | 1791 | October 1st | 50%
|
| Prussians capture Verdun | 1792 | September 2nd | 50%
|
| September Massacres | 1792 | September 2nd | 50%
|
| The Pope condemns the civil constitution | 1791 | April 13th | 33%
|
| The King is prevented from going to Saint Cloud | 1791 | April 18th | 33%
|
| France declares war | 1792 | April 20th | 33%
|
| Guillotine is used for the first time | 1792 | April 25th | 33%
|
| The Assembly votes for the abolition of theactive/passive distinction | 1792 | August 12th | 33%
|
| The extraordinary tribunal is established | 1792 | August 17th | 33%
|
| Lafayette defects to Austria | 1792 | August 19th | 33%
|
| The radical Paris sections demand that the King be dethroned | 1792 | August 3rd | 33%
|
| France declares war on Great Britain and the Dutch Republic | 1793 | February 1st | 33%
|
| Formal call for Estates General meeting | 1789 | January 24th | 33%
|
| France makes an ultimatum to Austria | 1792 | January 25th | 33%
|
| The decree of the country in danger | 1792 | July 11th | 33%
|
| The King is reinstated | 1791 | July 16th | 33%
|
| European nations form coalition against France | 1791 | July 25th | 33%
|
| Federal troops (from Marseille) arrive in Paris | 1792 | July 30th | 33%
|
| Brissontin ministry is dismissed and Prussiadeclares war on France | 1792 | June 13th | 33%
|
| The King is humiliated at the Tuileries | 1792 | June 20th | 33%
|
| The Girondins are removed from the Convention | 1793 | June 2nd | 33%
|
| Clergy and Nobility accept theprinciple of equality in taxation | 1789 | May 20th - 22nd | 33%
|
| The Assembly orders the emigrated noblesto return or lose their land | 1791 | November | 33%
|
| The committee of surveillance is established | 1791 | November 25th | 33%
|
| Brissot suggests the revolutionary war | 1791 | October 20th | 33%
|
| The Assembly of notables meet againto discuss make up of Estates-General | 1788 | October - December | 33%
|
| The King approves the constitution of 1791 andthe National Assembly is dissolved | 1791 | September 13th - 14th | 33%
|
| Assembly takes control of the treasury | 1790 | September 4th - 6th | 33%
|
| New Economic Plan abandoned by Stalin | ------ | 1928 | 17%
|
| Witte is dismissed | 1906 | April | 17%
|
| Girondins fail to try Marat | 1793 | April 13th - 24th | 17%
|
| The fundamental laws are passed | 1906 | April 23rd | 17%
|
| The first Dumas opens | 1906 | April 27th | 17%
|
| Federalist rebellion in Marseille | 1793 | April 29th | 17%
|
| Committee of Public Safety is created | 1793 | April 6th | 17%
|
| The Levée en Masse is decreed | 1793 | August 23rd | 17%
|
| Rasputin murdered | 1916 | December 16th | 17%
|
| The trial of the King is held | 1792 | December 3rd - 26th | 17%
|
| Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev unite againstStalin | ------ | Early 1926 | 17%
|
| The second Dumas opens | 1907 | February 20th | 17%
|
| The Assembly decrees conscription of anarmy of 300,000 men | 1793 | February 24th | 17%
|
| Food shortages cause riots in Paris | 1793 | February 25th - 27th | 17%
|
| Trotsky replaced as Commissar for War | 1925 | January | 17%
|
| Strikes continue | 1905 | January 10th | 17%
|
| Le Pelletier is assassinated | 1793 | January 20th | 17%
|
| Major strikes begin in St Petersburg | 1905 | January 7th | 17%
|
| The condemnation of the king, passing of the death sentence and vote against reprive | 1793 | January 7th - 18th | 17%
|
| Bloody Sunday petition and massacre | 1905 | January 9th | 17%
|
| Danton quits the committee of public safety | 1793 | July 10th | 17%
|
| Marat is assassinated by Charlotte Corday | 1793 | July 13th | 17%
|
| The death penalty is introduced for hoarding | 1793 | July 26th | 17%
|
| Robespierre becomes a member of the Committee of Public Safety | 1793 | July 27th | 17%
|
| The first Dumas is dissolved | 1906 | July 8th | 17%
|
| Stolypin is appointed prime minister | 1906 | June | 17%
|
| The Jacobin constitution is acceptedby the Convention | 1793 | June 24th | 17%
|
| The second Dumas is dissolved | 1907 | June 3rd | 17%
|
| Disastrous harvest | 1921 | June - July | 17%
|
| The revolutionary tribunal is established | 1793 | March 10th | 17%
|
| The Vendée rebellion begins | 1793 | March 11th | 17%
|
| The revolutionary committees are established | 1793 | March 21st | 17%
|
| The commission of twelve is appointed | 1793 | May 20th | 17%
|
| The coronation of Tsar Nicolas II | 1896 | May 26th | 17%
|
| The Assembly passes a new law againstrefractory priests | 1792 | May 27th | 17%
|
| Popular uprising in Paris against the Girondins | 1793 | May 31st | 17%
|
| Convention decrees the Maximum on food prices | 1793 | May 4th | 17%
|
| Third Dumas opens (remains until 1912) | 1907 | November 7th | 17%
|
| The Octoberists form | 1905 | October | 17%
|
| Zinoviev, Kamenev and Trotsky expelled fromthe party | 1926 | October - November | 17%
|
| Stolypin is assisnated | 1911 | September 1st | 17%
|
| The convention meets for the first time | 1792 | September 21st | 17%
|
| The republic is proclaimed | 1792 | September 22nd | 17%
|
| The king reopens the parliaments, theParis parelments demand that Estates-General vote by order | 1788 | September 25th | 17%
|
| Government by terror is introduced | 1793 | 5th September | 0%
|
| Second national Zemstvo congress calls fora constituent assembly | 1905 | April | 0%
|
| Tsaritsyn renamed Stalingrad | 1925 | April | 0%
|
| Forced labour camps begin | 1919 | April 11th | 0%
|
| 'Scissors crisis' analysed by Trotsky | 1923 | April 17th - 25th | 0%
|
| The rebellion of Germinal | 1795 | April 1st - 2nd | 0%
|
| Trotsky returns | 1917 | April 20th | 0%
|
| The rebellion of Prarial | 1795 | April 20th - May 2nd | 0%
|
| Polish-Soviet war begins | 1920 | April 26th | 0%
|
| Lenin arrives in Petrograd | 1917 | April 3rd | 0%
|
| Stalin appointed General Secretary | 1922 | April 3rd | 0%
|
| Striking workers at Lena goldfields are killedby the Imperial army | 1912 | April 4th | 0%
|
| Lenin announces April Theses | 1917 | April 4th | 0%
|
| Danton and Desmoulins are tried and executed | 1794 | April 5th | 0%
|
| The Tsar heads for the front | 1915 | August | 0%
|
| Outbreak of green resistance in Tambov | 1920 | August | 0%
|
| Germany declares war on Russia | 1914 | August 1st | 0%
|
| Kornilov affair | 1917 | August 24th - 27th | 0%
|
| Russian army defeated at battle of Tannenburg | 1914 | August 28th - 31st | 0%
|
| American and British troops land at Vladivostok | 1918 | August 2nd - 4th | 0%
|
| Petrograd CHEKA cheif assassinated; Kaplanwounds Lenin | 1918 | August 30th | 0%
|
| Further industrialisation backed by 14th partycongress | 1925 | December | 0%
|
| Banks are nationalised | 1917 | December 14th | 0%
|
| Lenin's second stroke | 1922 | December 15th | 0%
|
| Formal ranks and saluting abolished in armed forces | 1917 | December 16th | 0%
|
| Stalin espouses theory of Socialism in One Country | 1924 | December 17th | 0%
|
| Port Arthur surrenders to the Japanese | 1904 | December 20th | 0%
|
| Lenin dictates his 'Testament' | 1922 | December 25th | 0%
|
| Ceasefire with Germany | 1917 | December 2nd | 0%
|
| Committees of poor dissolved | 1918 | December 2nd | 0%
|
| Decree on marriage | 1917 | December 5th | 0%
|
| St Petersburg soviet orders a general strike | 1905 | December 6th | 0%
|
| Cheka created | 1917 | December 7th | 0%
|
| Moscow uprising is suppressed by force | 1905 | December 8th | 0%
|
| Left SRs enter Sovnarkom | 1917 | December 9th - 10th | 0%
|
| Ban on SRs lifted | 1919 | February | 0%
|
| Mass strikes in Moscow and Petrograd | 1921 | February | 0%
|
| Fighting with Germany resumes after talks stallin Brest-Litovsk | 1918 | February 18th | 0%
|
| Gregorian calendar introduced | 1918 | February 1st | 0%
|
| Planning Commission (GOSPLAN) established | 1921 | February 21st | 0%
|
| Women's day marches | 1917 | February 23rd | 0%
|
| Founding of the Red Army | 1918 | February 23rd | 0%
|
| Dumas defies Tsar's closing order | 1917 | February 26th | 0%
|
| Church resists confiscation of riches for faminerelief | 1922 | February 26th | 0%
|
| Petrograd soviet forms, Petrograd Garrisonmutiny and Provisional committee takes control | 1917 | February 27th | 0%
|
| The rebellion in Saint-Domingue forces the Convention to abolish slavery | 1794 | February 4th | 0%
|
| CHEKA is renamed the GPU | 1922 | February 6th | 0%
|
| Execution of Kolchak | 1920 | February 7th | 0%
|
| The Japanese attack port Arthur, sparkingthe Russo-Japanese war | 1904 | February 8th | 0%
|
| Grain requisitioning squads begin | 1919 | January | 0%
|
| Assassination attempt on Lenin | 1918 | January 1st | 0%
|
| Foreign debts are cancelled | 1918 | January 21st | 0%
|
| Death of Lenin | 1924 | January 21st | 0%
|
| Decree on separation of church and state | 1918 | January 23rd | 0%
|
| Putilov steel works strike | 1917 | January 26th | 0%
|
| Petrograd renamed Leningrad | 1924 | January 26th | 0%
|
| Ukraine declared independence (not recognised) | 1918 | January 28th | 0%
|
| Lenin urges removal of Stalin from General Secretary role | 1923 | January 4th | 0%
|
| Constituent Assembly opens | 1918 | January 5th | 0%
|
| Constituent Assembly dissolved by Government | 1918 | January 6th | 0%
|
| Third All-Russian congress declares 'Soviet' republic | 1918 | January 8th | 0%
|
| Class based rationing beings | 1918 | July | 0%
|
| Tsar and family executed | 1918 | July 17th | 0%
|
| Kornilov is announced supreme commander ofthe armed forces | 1917 | July 18th | 0%
|
| Constitution ratified by 5th congress of soviets | 1918 | July 19th | 0%
|
| Robespierre and his associate fall | 1794 | July 27th - 28th | 0%
|
| The July days | 1917 | July 3rd - 5th | 0%
|
| Wage controls are introduced in Paris | 1794 | July 5th | 0%
|
| SR uprising and von Mirbach assassinated | 1918 | July 5th - 6th | 0%
|
| Kerensky becomes prime minister | 1917 | July 8th | 0%
|
| Left SRs expelled from soviets | 1918 | July 9th | 0%
|
| Formation of committees of poor | 1918 | June 11th | 0%
|
| The Potemkin sailors mutiny | 1905 | June 14th | 0%
|
| Right SRs and Mensheviks expelled from soviets | 1918 | June 14th | 0%
|
| The June offensive begins | 1917 | June 18th | 0%
|
| War communism begins | 1918 | June 28th | 0%
|
| Mahkno's Green uprising in Ukraine begins | 1919 | June 4th | 0%
|
| Brusilov's offensive | 1916 | June 4th - September 20th | 0%
|
| Start of SR show trials | 1922 | June 6th | 0%
|
| The festival of the supreme being is held | 1794 | June 8th | 0%
|
| Formation of SR dominated Komuch | 1918 | June 8th | 0%
|
| Trial of the Jacobins | 1795 | March | 0%
|
| Russian capital moved from Petrograd to Moscow | 1918 | March 10th | 0%
|
| Lenin's third stoke | 1923 | March 10th | 0%
|
| The Heberists are arrested and executed | 1794 | March 13th - 24th | 0%
|
| Left SRs withdraw from Sovnarkom | 1918 | March 15th | 0%
|
| Trade agreement with Britain | 1922 | March 16th | 0%
|
| Red Army captures Kronstadt | 1921 | March 17th | 0%
|
| Treaty of Riga between Poland and Soviet Russia | 1921 | March 18th | 0%
|
| Soviet order No.1 | 1917 | March 1st | 0%
|
| Kronstadt sailors call for sovietswithout communists | 1921 | March 1st | 0%
|
| International women's day prompts widespread demonstrations throughout Russia | 1913 | March 21st | 0%
|
| The revolutionary armies are disbanded | 1794 | March 27th | 0%
|
| Abdication of the Tsar/ Prov Government formed | 1917 | March 2nd | 0%
|
| First congress of Comintern | 1919 | March 2nd - 6th | 0%
|
| Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed by Sovnarkom | 1918 | March 3rd | 0%
|
| Laws passed to allow rights to assembly andassociation | 1906 | March 4th | 0%
|
| Kolchak's campaigns in Siberia and Uralsbegin | 1919 | March 4th | 0%
|
| Launch of Red army assault on Kronstadt | 1921 | March 7th | 0%
|
| Bolshevik SDs change name to communist party | 1918 | March 8th | 0%
|
| NEP introduced at 10th party congress | 1921 | March 8th - 16th | 0%
|
| First campaign by Yudenish against Petrograd | 1919 | May | 0%
|
| Thirteenth party congress | 1924 | May | 0%
|
| Russians defeated at the battle of Tsushima | 1905 | May 14th | 0%
|
| Hyperinfaltion after bank told to print more notes | 1919 | May 15th | 0%
|
| Czech legion overthrows soviets along transsiberian railway | 1918 | May 22nd | 0%
|
| Lenin's first stroke | 1922 | May 26th | 0%
|
| Coalition government introduced, including sovietleaders | 1917 | May 5th | 0%
|
| Second campaign against Petrograd by Yudenich | 1919 | November | 0%
|
| Formal ranks and titles abolished | 1917 | November 10th | 0%
|
| Armistice between central powers and allies | 1918 | November 11th | 0%
|
| Elections for constituent assembly begin | 1917 | November 12th | 0%
|
| Soviets renege on Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | 1918 | November 13th | 0%
|
| State bank refuses to give the Government cash | 1917 | November 14th | 0%
|
| Last of White armies leave Crimea | 1920 | November 14th | 0%
|
| The fourth Dumas opens | 1912 | November 15th | 0%
|
| Moscow soviet is formed | 1905 | November 21st | 0%
|
| Criminal justice system replaced by People's courts | 1917 | November 22nd | 0%
|
| Kadet party banned and its leaders arrested | 1917 | November 28th | 0%
|
| The directory is established | 1795 | November 2nd | 0%
|
| Milrevcom troops gain control of Moscow | 1917 | November 2nd | 0%
|
| Ban on Mensheviks lifted | 1918 | November 30th | 0%
|
| Red Army reorganised and troop numbersreduced | 1924 | October | 0%
|
| The revolutionary government is declared | 1793 | October 10th | 0%
|
| Bolshevik central committee discusses whether to overthrow the Provisional Government | 1917 | October 10th | 0%
|
| The Kadets are formed | 1905 | October 12th | 0%
|
| Armistice between Poland and Soviet Russia | 1920 | October 12th | 0%
|
| St petersburg paralysed by strikes | 1905 | October 14th | 0%
|
| October manifesto issued | 1905 | October 17th | 0%
|
| Milrevcom meets for the first time | 1917 | October 20th | 0%
|
| Kerensky orders arrest of leading Bolsheviks,the closure of Bolshevik newspaper and the raising of bridges in central Petrograd | 1917 | October 23rd - 24th | 0%
|
| Milrevcom troops retake city from ProvisionalGovernment forces | 1917 | October 24th | 0%
|
| The Trial of the Girondins takes place | 1793 | October 24th - 31st | 0%
|
| Lenin declares the overthrow of the ProvisionalGovernment | 1917 | October 25th | 0%
|
| The convention closes down | 1795 | October 26th | 0%
|
| Bolsheviks capture the winter palace and overthrow the Government + Lenin issues first decrees | 1917 | October 26th | 0%
|
| Sovnarkom is established, and the Soviet centralexecutive committee is elected (CEC) | 1917 | October 27th | 0%
|
| Fighting in Moscow between Milrevcom andpro-Provisional Government forces | 1917 | October 31st | 0%
|
| Rebellion of Vendémiaire | 1795 | October 5th | 0%
|
| The law of suspects makes arrests essentiallyarbitrary | 1793 | September 17th | 0%
|
| Komuch becomes Provisional All-RussianGovernment | 1918 | September 23rd | 0%
|
| RSFSR becomes USSR | 1922 | September 23rd | 0%
|
| Trotsky elected chairman of Petrograd soviet | 1917 | September 25th | 0%
|
| The law of the general maximum is decreed | 1793 | September 29th | 0%
|
| Tsar Dismisses Dumas | 1915 | September 2nd | 0%
|
| Bolsheviks achieve majority in Moscow soviet | 1917 | September 2nd | 0%
|
| The Russo-Japanese war is ended with the treaty of Portsmouth | 1905 | September 5th | 0%
|
| Decree on Red Terror | 1918 | September 5th | 0%
|
| The Battle of Hondschoote is a turning pointfor the French in the War | 1793 | September 8th | 0%
|
| Bolsheviks achieve majority in Petrograd soviet | 1917 | September 8th | 0%
|
| The Russians defeated at the Masurian lakes | 1914 | September 9th - 14th | 0%
|